Outside the Santorum headquarters I was approached by Rod Olson, who flew in on Wednesday from Modesto, California, to work for Santorum. He’s a stay-at-home dad whose wife Kristin Olsen is a member of the California Assembly. Campaigns for him “are like fantasy baseball, he said, and he’d been planning to come out to New Hampshire and work for someone. “I looked at Romney,” he says, but watching the Iowa caucus returns, “When I saw Rick Santorum turn to his wife and quote C. S. Lewis, I said I’m for him.”

It turns out you can rise pretty high in Santorum campaign staff ranks pretty quickly. On Thursday night Rod Olsen is one of the lead staffers at the candidate’s appearance at the Southern New Hampshire 912 Committee event at Windham High School, counting the number of TV cameras (17) so the campaign can relay that information to reporters. All 660 seats in the plush auditorium were filled, as they were for a 912 Committee event for Gingrich I attended in December. At the event Santorum is introduced by state Senator Jim Luther, who endorsed him after Iowa: only in America would a Catholic be introduced by a Luther.